Blizzard Challenge

In order to better understand and compare research techniques in building corpus-based speech synthesizers on the same data, the Blizzard Challenge has been devised. The basic challenge is to take the released speech database, build a synthetic voice from the data and synthesize a prescribed set of test sentences. The sentences from each synthesizer will then be evaluated through listening tests.

This is now a regular series of challenges. The latest one is the Blizzard Challenge 2008. The pages for Blizzard Challenge 2007 are still available for reference. Descriptions of, and publications from, previous challenges can currently be found on the Festvox site.